In the face of today’s rapidly growing energy demands accompanied by limited, non-renewable supplies, development of novel energy alternatives that are both renewable and inexpensive has become more important than ever. ...

Quantum dots (QDs) have become attractive in the biomedical field on account of their superior optical properties and stability, in comparison to traditional fluorophores. QDs also have properties which make them ideal for ...

The transport characteristics of both electrons and holes through narrow constricted “wall-like” Silicon (Si) long-channels that were surrounded by a thermally grown SiO2 layer was investigated. As a result of the existence ...

Nanoscience is a rapidly developing field at the nexus of all physical sciences which holds the potential for mankind to gain a new level of control of matter over matter and energy altogether. Directed-assembly is an ...

In this dissertation, we have designed a series of recombinant fluorescent full-length protease substrates containing the cleavage sites separated by a biotinylation tag and a GFP domain, which can be associated with ...

The aim of this work was the development of a novel drug delivery vehicle termed nano-in-microparticles (NIMs) to evaluate the magnetic-field dependent targeting of dry powder NIMs administered endotracheally using an ex ...

Magnetostrictive CoFe films were investigated for use as magnetoelastic tags or sensors. The ability to electrodeposit these films enables batch fabrication processes to pattern a variety of geometries while controlling ...

High-quality Ge-on-Si (GoS) heterostructures are pursued for many applications, including near infrared (NIR) photodetectors and integration with III-V films for multi-junction photovoltaics. However, challenges such as ...

Although they were first discovered more than a century ago, modern enzymatic electrodes used in enzymatic fuel cells and enzymatic amperometric sensors are a rapidly diversifying field, the applications of which have yet ...

Antibiotics are critical to the welfare of humans domestically and abroad, and their importance cannot be overlooked. However, over the past century, the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi has warranted the ...

We report the molecular engineering and spectral characterization of a new reversibly photoswitchable chromoprotein, B11 a variant of thermostable green protein (TGP) that has been evolved for favorable solubility, ...

We developed a universal, facile and robust method to prepare free-standing, ordered and patternable nanoparticle/polymer monolayer arrays by evaporation-induced self-assembly at a fluid interface. The ultra-thin monolayer ...

Neural degenerative diseases and traumatic injuries to the eye affect millions of people worldwide, motivating the development of neural prosthetic interfaces to restore sensory or motor function in affected individuals. ...

Infrared detectors are very important technological tools for many different applications. Infrared detectors have existed as far back as the late 1700s but received a tremendous push 200 years later during World War II. ...

Non-platinum catalysts are an attractive strategy for lowering the cost of fuel cells, but much more development is needed in order to replace platinum, especially at the cathode where oxygen is reduced. Research groups ...

Ion trap systems allow the faithful storage and manipulation of qubits encoded in the energy levels of the ions, and can be interfaced with photonic qubits that can be transmitted to connect remote quantum systems. Single ...

Photoluminescence and Resonant Raman spectroscopy were performed on the conjugated polymer MDMO-PPV (Poly[2-methoxy-5-(3′,7′-dimethyloctyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene]), both in its pure form and in blends with electron ...

Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) have the potential to provide inexpensive,
renewable electric power to satisfy increasing global energy demands due to their low
materials and processing costs. Poly[2,6-(4,4-bis-(2-ethylhex ...

A protein’s sequence of amino acids determines how it folds. That folded structure is linked to protein function, and misfolding to dysfunction. Protein misfolding and aggregation into β-sheet rich fibrillar aggregates is ...